dovecot - Feb 2013 - Problem importing mail from maildir directory

Hi,

I am trying to import mail from a maildir directory into dovecot using the
'doveadm import' command:

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bash-4.0$ doveadm -D import -u marion maildir:${HOME}/Mail '' ALL
doveadm(marion): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot
doveadm(marion): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so
doveadm(marion): Debug: Loading modules from directory:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm
doveadm(marion): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen()
failed:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol:
acl_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore
this message)
doveadm(marion): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen()
failed:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol:
expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just
ignore this message)
doveadm(marion): Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so
doveadm(marion): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_zlib_plugin, because dlopen()
failed:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so: undefined symbol:
i_stream_create_deflate (this is usually intentional, so just
ignore this message)
doveadm(marion): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen()
failed:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol:
fts_backend_rescan (this is usually intentional, so just ignore
this message)
doveadm(marion): Debug: Effective uid=10001, gid=10000, home=/home/marion
doveadm(marion): Debug: quota: No quota setting - plugin disabled
doveadm(marion): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/marion/Mail, index=, control=,
inbox=/home/marion/Mail, altdoveadm(marion): Debug: Effective uid=10001,
gid=10000, home=/home/marion
doveadm(marion): Debug: quota: No quota setting - plugin disabled
doveadm(marion): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes,
hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/marion
doveadm(marion): Debug: fs: root=/home/marion/mail, index=, control=,
inbox=/var/spool/mail/marion, alt
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What I get is

- no mails are imported
- no error messages are output
- nothing is written to the system log

in other words, nothing happens at all. Any hints?

tk

On 23.2.2013, at 13.56, Thomas Koeller <thomas at koeller.dyndns.org>
wrote:
> I am trying to import mail from a maildir directory into dovecot using the
'doveadm import' command:
> 
> bash-4.0$ doveadm -D import -u marion maildir:${HOME}/Mail '' ALL
..
> What I get is
> 
> - no mails are imported
> - no error messages are output
> - nothing is written to the system log
> 
> in other words, nothing happens at all. Any hints?
I guess Dovecot doesn't think there are any mails in that maildir. What does
"ls -la ${HOME}/Mail" say?

You can also check what Dovecot sees in there:

doveadm -o mail=maildir:${HOME}/Mail mailbox status messages '*'